By Phila Back, Phila Back blog
At this time everyone, as parts of the human systems constituted by communities, polities and humanity as a whole, must consciously, collectively and urgently strive to realize the ecological civilization.
By Vicki Robin, John Wood, Jr., Resilience.org
John Wood, Jr. is a national leader for Braver Angels, a former nominee for Congress, former Vice-Chairman of the Republican Party of Los Angeles County, musical artist and a noted writer and speaker on issues of political and racial reconciliation. He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
By Jody Tishmack, Anima/Soul
How do we transition to a low carbon energy system when plentiful resources are no longer available? Our past Horn of Plenty has become a trap from which we in the developed nations increasingly find difficult to extract ourselves.
By Vicki Robin, Glacier Kwong, Resilience.org
Glacier Kwong is a political and digital rights activist born and raised in Hong Kong. She is founder of the NGO Keyboard Frontline and is a Research Fellow at Hong Kong Democracy Council in the US. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
By Howard Wachtel, Transnational Institute
Discussions of the threat to liberal democracy have neglected perhaps the most surprising source that is one of the major arcs of history of the last three decades: globalization.
By Robert Costanza, Solutions
The United States was founded on ideas that reflected Enlightenment thinking, including the importance of science and the separation of church and state.
By Vicki Robin, Thom Hartmann, Resilence.org
Thom Hartmann has been the nation's #1 progressive talk show host for over a decade. Recorded in the lead up to the US presidential election, Thom shares his thoughts on What Could Possibly Go Right?
By Daniel Hunter, Waging Nonviolence
So what I’m offering isn’t asking us to stop what we’re doing now. Instead I’m part of an effort called Choose Democracy, which is prepping people for the possibility of a coup while keeping people focused on a strong, robust election process. After all, the best way to stop a coup is to not have one.
By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion
The nation has nearly ceased to function as it was envisioned by the authors of the Constitution. The flaw is not in the system's design but increasingly in the character of those chosen to lead it.
By Robert Reich, The Guardian blog
People in public life tend to fall into one of two broad categories – those motivated by principle, and those motivated by power. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Friday night at the age of 87, exemplified the first.
By Vicki Robin, Heather Cox Richardson, Resilience.org
Heather Cox Richardson addresses the question of What Could Possibly Go Right? with a political focus in her conversation with host Vicki Robin.
By George Monbiot, The Guardian blog
Established power in this country is surrounded by a series of defensive rings. As soon as you begin to name them, you see that the UK is a democracy only in the weakest and shallowest sense.